Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-12-31

postmaster at East Benton, Somerset county
vice Henrietta H Moore, resigned.
1t is reported that so 900 troops are massed
at Benden in Bessaraba and that guns and
munitions of war are constantly arriving
there.
Don Carlos has issued manifesto declar-
ing that it is his duty to reserve his rights as
head of the House of Bourbons to both
French and Spanish thrones.
Smith has replied to SulIivan's challenge
that he ready to fight Sullivan after his
match with Mitchell, for any amount of
money Sullivan chooses to name.
Ben Shepard, marshal of Midwife, Ca,
was killed by an escapade with negro,
whom he attempted to arrest. The negro
was mortally wounded by Shepard.
George Gardiner, of Stamford, Conn, son
of the late Thos. Gardiner, was killed Thurs
day night by falling out of his own convey
ance on his way to his country home.
Laura Webster of San Francisco, aged Is
years, has apparently been asleep for seventy
days. Her physicians administer liquid food
to her through tube. She is wasting away
| A Herald special from Washington says
that President Cleveland denies the report
that he intends sending to Congress supple
mentary message defining his position on the
tariff question.
Blacksmith and harness makers of Kildy-
sart have received letters threatening them
with death if they do any work for the police
or for persons who have been boycotted.
| The blacksmiths submit.
| 1t is stated that Prince Alexander of Olden-
burg, who has just arrived in Paris from St.
Petersburg, is charged with mission to set
tie the details for common Russo French ac-
| ton in the event of war.
A committee of Methodist ministers has
found Rev. X. Ii. Wallace of Chillicothe,
guilty of making love to three women of his
parish and leading them all to believe he was
to marry them. He is suspended.
A Washington special to the New York
Herald says: Friends of Senator Joe Black
burn are greatly alarmed regarding his
health, it being reported upon authority that
he is suffering from cancer of the stomach.
The San Francisco Board of Health on
Thursday, held special meeting to consider
the small pox epidemic which is on an alarm
ing increase. The papers keep quiet about
the disease, fearing that eastern visitors will
be kept away.
The following Maine pensions were
granted Friday:
Original, John L. w. Colson, Castine
increase Charles w. Kincaid, Ellsworth
Falls, VIM. Ii Spear, Belfast; reissue,
Isaac jackson, Belfast, Albert N. Hanson,
Saco.
AT Leomiuster, Mass, a young unmarried
woman named Katie Fenton, good looking
and of good social standing is believed to
have committed suicide Thursday. The
physician found her in a room in convul-
sions. She died in few hours in terrible
agony. The doctors pronounce it a case of
poisoning probably administered by her own
hand Her parents live in Andover, N. II.
A fire early Friday morning destroyed the
two upper stories of two large double tene-
ment blocks on Midllesex street, Lowell,
owned by ID. L. Fitzgerald and Davis & Sar-
gent. The loss is estimated at $685. 900, and
is only partly insured. Frank Gilbert, a
lodger, was asleep in the upper room and did
not awake until his limbs were badly burned.
He was almost sutfocated when rescued.
Forty-eight hours after noon of Friday
the officers of the New York yacht club, the
present custodians of the Americas cup, are
not bound by deed of gift to accept any chal-
enge that may be sent by foreign yachtsmen
asking for race in 1888. No challenge has
been received. Rather than disappoint them
selves and the public, the club will extend
the time, provided challenge arrives in the
first few days of January.
A land slide on the Great Southern rail-
rood, near Livingston. Ala, Thursday,
caused serious accident The limited ex-
press. the fastest train in the south, ran into
rocks and earth which had fallen on the
track and two passenger coaches were thrown
from the track aud upset. Sixteen persons
were injured, some of them badly. The
freight train was also caught by the slide
and some of the cars demoli he'd.
The London Standards Paris correspon-
dent says; In an interview on Friday, Senior
Mateur, the Columbian minister, declared
that neither by threat nor by cajolery would
his government be induced to allow America
to have anything to do with the Panama ca
nal even if DeLesseps failed to complete the
work. They would rather do without the
canal than see America complete it, He had
perfect confidence in DeLesseps and Colum-
bia would prolong the concession to DeLes-
seps, if necessary.
The steam lighter Orinda of New York,
Capt. Hendricks, entered jacksonville, Fla,
Thursday, for needed repairs. She is
owned by the Mexican Central Railroad
Company. with offices in New York and Bos-
ton, and is bound for Tampico, Tex, to
lighter over the bar there the supplies used
in the construction of the railroad The
captain reports heavy weather all the way
down. He left New York on Dec. IL. Be-
ing high pressure boat, he is Obliged to
enter port often to procure fresh water, and
will touch at Key West and New Orleans.
The New York World Friday morning
publishes what it claims to be synopsis of
the reports submitted to the President by
the Pacific railway commission. Commits
sioners Anderson and Littler recommend
that the time for the payment of the debt
due the government be extended to fifty
years. the government to take a mortgage of
the entire property. Commissioner Patter-
sons minority report recommends that both
roads be forfeited and receivers appointed
who shall have authority to bring civic and
criminal suits against those who have de-
frauIed the government and the road.
The socialist paper, volks Zeitusg on FRI
day, publishes blood thirsty circular, which
is being distributed along the lines of the
railroads and docks of New York. The cir
| cular is addressed to fellow workmen, |"
and says: Yesterday it was the slaughter of
our brothers in Chicago; today the assassina-
ton Of sixty thousand Of our brothers Of the
Philadelphia & Reading system. Do not
waste your time on scabs. Destroy by all
agencies at your command the direct repre-.
sentatives of the system, the Corbins, Max
wells, Goulds. Let all they possess "a
flames be given; hound them night and day.
The strike must be made war of classei
against the masses.
A fourteen thousand dollar fire in Canaan
started at o'clock, Friday morning, in thu
store of Chase G Moody. There 10 no frt
department there and the whole village wa
threatened. Skowhegan was appealed to foI
aid. The selectmen offered to let the steam
! er go at IL o'clock, but the FIRE was then un-
der control The fire burned Henry Kicker
store, valued at $500, insured for 9ll00
| Chase Moody's stock yalned at $3.50, in